Re: lua interpreter to return a value to shell

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Grizzly Bear <6grizzlybear@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>
>> Use os.exit(n) in Lua and the $? variable in Bash:
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>> $ lua5.1 -e 'os.exit(42)'; echo $?
>> 42
>
> Cool! Thanks.
>
>>
>>
>> or write all of the logic in a Lua script. ;-)
>>
>>
> I wish. Unfortunately, I have to deal with C, bash, Make, etc.
>
> Wei

Well, Lua has os.execute and io.popen, so technically you probably
could. It might be ugly though...

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